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I’ve spent my overabundance of free time the past couple of days trying to figure out Twitter. I’ve written about this before, and maybe I’m just too old or uncool or whatever, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I know it’s useful for quick status updates about what you’re doing in the moment, and I used it myself for just that purpose when the family headed down Disney World way. I...
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I’m not sure whether it’s something to do with the mind of a toddler, or if there are more sinister forces at work in the United Kingdom, but Trey is absolutely and unequivocally infatuated with Thomas The Tank Engine. If you don’t have kids, you might not know what I’m talking about, but chances are you do. Thomas is pretty hard to miss, as he’s a bright blue anthropomorphized train with a disturbing grey...
Read MoreI’m posting this a little early today, but it’s important. My sister called me last night to ask me about something called iJingo – The Center Of The Online Universe. Apparently, a family member has bought into this new venture and told her about the amazing opportunity she could have to get in on the ground level of the next Google. I was interested to hear what she had to say, being as I hadn’t heard anything...
Read MoreIt has been a long and difficult week, dear readers. One that started out with an ominous specter looming over its midpoint which, when it finally emerged from the wisps of preview and foreshadowing, bit down hard with toxic teeth. This past Wednesday marked the beginning of the long-dreaded and painful period of uninterrupted visitation for Trey’s biological father, and the actual changeover of possession happened with an unexpected...
Read MoreI recently came across this post from the blog The Rest Is Still Unwritten, and I hated it immediately. I’ve nothing against the blog in question, nor with the gentleman writing it – but I do take issue with his bizarre thesis that using Twitter will make one a better writer. The basic gist of the post is that, due to Twitter’s 140 character limit, its users will learn to be more concise and immediate with their verbiage...
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Kristian Bland
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Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
